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by gnrlst 617 days ago
What do you mean? It's basically steel blades and sharp/pointy edges on wheels. I'm sure other vehicles will hurt if they hit a pedestrian at speed, but even getting hit at 5 mph by the cybertruck could create very dangerous wounds.
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Hardly a Tesla problem though, the grill culture of suvs and trucks is a thing because pedestrian safety is not a design consideration.
An F150 or Dodge RAM, despite being ludicrously large, is much less dangerous than the cybertruck at low speeds because instead of sharp and jagged protrusions they just have a smooth wall-like front end.

At high speeds? Compare their weights and you'll see that making a pickup truck electric also makes it really heavy.

At high speeds pedestrians are dead anyway. The problem with extra weight is that over a certain weight trucks plow through safety barriers into oncoming traffic when get loose control